The incident all began when police received a call about a dog being on the loose.

An officer eventually found the dog and began to follow it home, when the animal “growled and approached him in a threatening manner,” according to nbcchicago.

The officer didn’t hesitate in pulling his gun and shooting the dog.

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“We were in the lawn and the cop already had his gun out. I tried to call him in the house and he just stood there staring and I guess he showed his teeth and the cop just shot him,” she told NBC Chicago. “Right in front of me and my 6-year-old daughter.”

Echlin says her daughter, after seeing the killing take place, screamed and fell to the floor.

Echlin says she’s “still in shock” about what happened.

“The dog wasn’t doing anything. I didn’t see it doing anything, it wasn’t barking,” said neighbor Nicco Torres who saw the shooting through his window. “Then I saw a cop shoot the dog, the dog fell to the ground on the lawn.”